Last week, a little-known political candidate from a small town in Michigan garnered national attention after she claimed the Bible forbids interracial marriages, and now a popular pastor is responding.
Jarrid Wilson, a pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, and founder of the nonprofit Anthem of Hope posted a tweet Tuesday making clear the fact the candidate’s words don’t reflect true Christianity.
“On behalf of Jesus,” Wilson wrote, “let me apologize to all people of color for these disgusting remarks made in the name of Christianity and the Bible.”
What’s the background?
Jean Cramer, who hails from Marysville, a small town with a population of just under 10,000 people, was running for city council when she said during a public forum last week she wanted to keep the town white “as much as possible.”
A reporter with The Times Herald later gave Cramer the opportunity to clarify her remarks. In response, she said:
Husband and wife need to be the same race. Same thing with kids. That’s how it’s been from the beginning of, how can I say, when God created the heaven and the earth. He created Adam and Eve at the same time. But as far as me being against blacks, no I’m not.
Questioned later outside her home, Cramer said she has “no problem” with a black couple moving into Marysville, but suggested it would be antithetical to Scripture for a black and a white person to be married and live in her community.
“It’s simply against the Bible,” she asserted. “God created Adam and Eve — same kind, same race all around. He’s our example right there.”
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